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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:31:20 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200008111831.UAA14139@grimreaper.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> ; from Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>  "Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:18:00 -0400."
References:  <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> 

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> >   Don't build suidperl by default.  Make users specifically enable its
> >   building.
> 
> Umm.. isn't that a bit of a radical change?  Any reason for it?

Yes; SUID-anything is a potential hole. Perl may be a good tool,
and folks who need it can get it, but for the rank-and file,
disabling this is good.

M
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